The Revolving Staircase
The true story behind the HBO Max drama The Staircase takes yet another disturbing step
Literary Exile
Kate Clanchy’s memoir about teaching children was beloved by critics and readers. Then a Twitter storm called for it—and its author—to be canceled
They’re Thingin’ Our Thong!
The true story of Chippendales, the legendary strip club for women, will make your eyes, um, bulge
When Your Mother Is a Conspiracy Theorist
Gen Z–ers struggle with how to save parents radicalized by social-media-fueled lies
When Your Life Is a True-Crime Scandal
Six years after she was freed from an Italian prison and found innocent of a sensational murder, Amanda Knox looks back
The Nanny Diaries
Kiley Reid worked as a babysitter in New York before fictionalizing her experience for the page. The resulting novel explores racism and liberal hypocrisy
Off the Rails
The famed Ian Allan Book & Model Shop in London, a favorite of railway enthusiasts, is the U.K.’s latest coronavirus casualty
Tracking the Golden State Killer
How one man’s obsession fueled a best-seller and a hit documentary
The Passenger
Why Jeffrey Epstein cultivated a friendship with Bill Clinton is obvious. What the ex-president got out of it is harder to explain